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She added: "Winter mortality of lambs removes inbred individuals, removes bad genes, so the flock has this purging thing the whole time which I don't think we would be able to organise."

We have got used to Amorim speaking from the heart and, in explaining why he said what he did at Grimsby, it was as though he was purging himself.

A March executive order railed against “improper ideology” and “divisive narratives,” targeting the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture for a historical purging.

Previous leaders had made a show of purging dozens or even hundreds of police officers that they claimed were rotten.

The agency has been purging officials since the Republican president returned to office in January.